Holding queer Indian lives in print, on record, in conversation
We preserve.
We publish.
We share.
Queer Ink began in Mumbai in 2010 as India’s first online queer bookstore.
Today we are a publisher, an archive and a digital library, with conversations that carry the work into the world — all held in trust, so that no generation has to begin again from silence.
Books drawn from the Queer India Archives, and Swabhimaan, which helps independent creators publish and own their work on their own terms.
Oral histories, photographs, letters and newsletters, preserved with the consent of the people whose lives they record.
Queer Indian books, documents and archival material from across decades, searchable in one place.
Conversations, talks and collaborations that take the archive out into the world, and bring new stories back in.
Our works
Books we have published.
From Out!, our first book in 2012, to new work drawn from the Queer India Archives: books by queer Indian writers, for readers today and the generations after them.
Out! Stories from the New Queer India
Edited by Minal Hajratwala
The Wisest Fool on Earth
R. Raj Rao
All My Masters: An East-West Encounter
Hoshang Merchant
A Play of Light
Ruth Vanita
What we preserve matters.
Books can disappear. Websites can go offline. Personal papers can be discarded. Memories can be lost.
When queer lives slip out of the record, it is not only a gap in queer history. It is a gap in India’s history.
Queer Ink works to ensure that queer Indian lives, histories and knowledge remain available — for people today and for generations to come.
“Our voices shatter the silence we inherited, so the future must never know the choice of the closet.”
Our History
Queer Ink began by selling books no one else would stock. Every step since has filled a gap the last one revealed.
2010
Founded in Mumbai as India’s first online queer bookstore.
2012
Launched Out! Stories from the New Queer India, our inaugural anthology.
2013
Produced several short documentaries.
2014
Launched QFest, a monthly festival at a mainstream venue.
2023
Established the Queer India Archives to collect oral histories, zines, photographs, and activist memorabilia.
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